I've been using nothing but 64-bit Debian for the last few years.
I love it. Server, workstation.
brian m. carlson 23:12 Mon 21 Mar
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:35:46PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Are there still significant end-user problems for 64-bit Debian? The
machin
Lennart Sorensen 13:37 Fri 10 Jul
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:59:22AM -0300, Erick Tostes wrote:
Until the next xorg upgrade overwrites one of the files and breaks things.
Packages are a much better idea to use.
The nvidia installer is one of those awful things that works
* Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-28 10:20:05 -0200]:
> wget -c
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-40r1-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Try installing and using jigdo/jigdo-lite. I've had pretty good luck
with it.
It downloads smaller chunks and assemb
* Joost Kraaijeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-10 19:43:48 +0200]:
> The card is recognised by the software and it even works somehow (I can
> see all the wifi networks in my building using wifi-radar). But whatever
> I do I cannot get a (DHCP) ip address from my Zyxel AP which is using a
> WE
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-26 10:55:37 -0400]:
> apt-cache show packagename > dpkg --info package.deb
> To see what files a package is using: > dpkg -L packagename
> To see what package owns a file: > dpkg -S /path/to/filename
Thanks!
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* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 21:23:53 +0100]:
> Now, assume those packages are updated (e.g. by a security update),
> reversing the nvidia changes. The nvidia driver will unexpectedly stop
> working. You try to uninstall, which replaces the overwritten files with
> the versions tha
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 10:20:13 -0400]:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:14:13AM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> > I much prefer doing it all myself and
> > understanding where to put every file.
>
> I used to do my own kernels. I stopped b
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 09:27:34 -0400]:
> In fact if you have three processes to run and in total they need 90% of
> one cpu, then it is better to run it all on one cpu and let the other
> one go to power saving mode rather than running half the load on each.
> That doe
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 09:33:27 -0400]:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:53:49AM +0200, Niels Larsen wrote:
> > On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> >
> > At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, f
* Hans-J. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 08:27:20 +0200]:
> Am Freitag 24 August 2007 schrieb Niels Larsen:
> > On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> >
> > At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following thei
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-23 23:19:02 +]:
> Hi Niels, (top posting on purpose)
>
> Keep the replies to the list. See my embedded comments. I'll cc the
> debian-amd64 list.
This is off topic, but /now/ I discover the L key in mutt
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* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-23 11:45:11 -0400]:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:08:49PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > I have an AMD64 dual-core cpu running debian-amd64. Now I have heard, that
> > it
> > might be possible, to run applications on different cpus. One app is
>
* Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]:
> > Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the
> > Nvidia driver lets the viewer see the MS's facial expression change as
> > Maria talks, with the nv driver you miss this subtle facial acting.
> >
> > I
* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 13:12:17 +0100]:
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> > * Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]:
> >
> > > In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. C
* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]:
> In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double
> that. It's a significantly faster floating point chip, albeit with
> significantly worse memory bandwidth.
Thanks! Do you know of a URL that lays out all the p
* Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 08:48:57 +0100]:
> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >
> > I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I
> > don't know if, for example, there are fewer choices of free drivers for
> > amd64.
>
> Fr
* Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 19:05:31 +0200]:
> A Dijous 19 Juliol 2007 18:51, Chris Ahlstrom va escriure:
> Another question is the splash image in grub, but this is another question.
I think that is a side effect of the SATA problem, too.
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* Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-19 18:32:35 +0200]:
> A Dijous 19 Juliol 2007 18:25, Lennart Sorensen va escriure:
> > > because the grub, after reboot doesn't detect this:
> > > splashimage=/boot/sid.bmp
> > > or
> > > splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/sid.bmp
> > >
> > > and the
* Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-11 17:27:20 -0500]:
> > Some people use gparted from a livecd. Do NOT resize or move the
> > windows boot partition however, unless you have a real vista CD around
> > to boot to recovery mode and repair the boot files for vista. It will
> > not boot if you cha
* A J Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-11 08:56:42 +0100]:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007 03:46, Seb wrote:
> >
> > Just programs that are not available for amd64, or that require some
> > plugin that is not: acroread, iceweasel (for flash, and the java 6
> > packages), mplayer (for w32codecs), re
* Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-23 14:31:35 +]:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:20:10 +0200, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
> > I need one more crash: what package gives one "dh_make"?
>
> Behold: dh-make
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/
* Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-22 20:59:44 +]:
> Ditch checkinstall and learn the debian way. In particular:
>
> $ tar -xzvf foo.tar.gz
> $ cd foo
> $ ./configure --your-pretty-options
> $ make --your-pretty-options
> [if everything goes according to the plan]
> $ dh_make --cr
* Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-21 19:55:17 +0200]:
> Hi
>I think I had this problem a year ago and the solution is the following.
> In
> the do_chroot script write
> #!/bin/bash
>
> LANG=C; exec schroot -p -c sid -q -- "`basename $0`" "$@"
>
> This LANG=C fixes the pro
* A J Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-14 09:01:29 +0100]:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 20:52, C Wakefield wrote:
> > Greetings all.
> >
> > I have a problem with either the nvidia-kernel or the nvidia module m-a
> > compiles.
> >
> > The xorg driver nv works "fine";
>
> Then use that! Problem
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